[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Dave]

Hmm ... so we can have <img:emoticon src="smiley">, and <img:genicon src="beer"> ... interesting idea. . .

Yeah, I think that will keep the implementation reasonably clean, while making people who want to treat emoticons differently happy.

Thanks for the idea :-)

 - Dave


Julian Fitzell wrote:
> 
> No, I was supporting your proposal... just didn't come out sounding that 
> way :)  I didn't mean the x tags had to be inline, just that I prefer 
> having an x tag with an appropriate namespace that identifies it as an 
> emoticon rather than a standard <img> tag that doesn't tell you that.
> 
> Julian
> 
> Richard Dobson wrote:
> > I dont know but that is what the person was suggesting
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave" <dave at dave.tj>
> > To: <jdev at jabber.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:07 AM
> > Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>Why would you want to put inline x elements in the xhtml segment???
> >>
> >> - Dave
> >>
> >>
> >>Richard Dobson wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "Julian Fitzell" <julian at beta4.com>
> >>>To: <jdev at jabber.org>
> >>>Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 3:23 PM
> >>>Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Sure, but then in either case why are we using an <img> tag?  Sure we
> >>>>can use a tag called <img> if we want, but why not an x tag with an
> >>>>appropriate namespace?  This doesn't save any bandwidth and now the
> >>>>client can't use and HTML widget to display XHTML messages because it
> >>>>won't understand the URN...
> >>>
> >>>Yes I know, I forsaw the problem that a client may not understand the
> >>
> > urn,
> > 
> >>>thats why I like my way of defining appropriate replacements, if a
> >>
> > client
> > 
> >>>does not understand the x element, it can just ignore it, and it wont
> >>
> > break
> > 
> >>>displaying of the message it will just come out as the original text.
> >>
> > Also
> > 
> >>>im not sure if inline x elements are even allowed in the xhtml segment.
> >>
> > 
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